Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.